High school assigners asking officials to ignore unsporting behavior or not file ejection reports with the state does not surprise me one inkling. These are the same assigners who won't try to get their officials a nominal pay increase because "the schools have no money" and they are scared to death of losing their gigs.
It is funny, I always hear how "college officials" let coaches get away with so much because "It's a coaches' game," and while that latter part is a fact, I have caught FAR more flack for handling business in high school games than college games over my career.
At the high school level I have had partners try to get me to overturn my T's and ejections, I have had partners kiss the coach's rear end the entire game clearly undermining me, I have had assigners question my T's to the nth degree, I have worked with partners who won't handle business because "I don't want to do paperwork" and "These fans didn't come to see us." And yet, I continuously hear preaching about how high school sports are an "extension of the classroom" and we have such an important role to play. It is a bunch of hypocrisy, is all I have to say.
At the college level, while there is plenty of emphasis on being a good communicator (just because you call T's does not mean you are a bad communicator - it is a rule in the book) and making sure your T's show up on film, the reality is that if you are unwilling to handle business, you will have problems in your games and you will not last very long with that reputation. I know of officials who have allowed coaches to carry on the entire game - then the usually well-behaved coach on the other bench starts acting up and calls the assigner after the game asking why the crew allowed the other coach to get away with murder during the game. There was a college game in my area that had a bench-clearing brawl earlier this year - the crew came out of it with one technical foul and no ejections. How do you think this went over for them after the game? I have caught more flack at the college level for letting coaches and players get away with too much than for having a quick trigger. Meanwhile I am just as, if not more tolerant, at the high school level and it seems every T I call has to be taken personally and made into a big charade.
Also, every time I have called a technical foul on a college coach and he calls the assigner to complain about it/me after the game, the assigner asks him for the film. And either the coach doesn't send it in (I wonder why?) or the film very clearly shows that it was justified. I have had high school assigners, on the other hand, automatically jump to the conclusion that something must have been handled improperly by me without even looking at the tape.
All that to say - none of what JRut experienced with the idiot coach and his spineless assigner shocks me one bit.
Last edited by SC Official; Mon Mar 08, 2021 at 02:51pm.
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